scholarly journals Household Barriers to Climate Change Action: Perspectives from Nuevo Leon, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4178 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Liliana González-Hernández ◽  
Erik W. Meijles ◽  
Frank Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nuevo León ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
Perceived Locus Of Control ◽  
Taking Action

It is necessary to mobilize households so that they make changes to their everyday activities to address climate change. However, in the academic literature, there has been little focus on the perceived barriers to climate change action at the household level. Previous research has also highlighted a need for more studies in Latin America. This study contributes to the literature by filling these gaps. In a face-to-face and online survey administered in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, we asked participants what barriers impede their household from taking action to address climate change. Using thematic analysis, seven main barriers were identified: (i) everyday life; (ii) awareness of climate change; (iii) lack of perceived locus of control; (iv) physical limitations of the dwelling; (v) social, (vi) regulatory; and (vii) economic. Given the significant potential effects of climate change in the Nuevo Leon region, a better understanding of the barriers that prevent households from addressing climate change will inform the development of targeted guidelines and strategies to address changing climate.

scholarly journals Factors that Influence Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Action: A Household Study in the Nuevo Leon Region, Mexico

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulce Liliana González-Hernández ◽  
Erik W. Meijles ◽  
Frank Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Greenhouse Gasses ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Nuevo León ◽  
Adaptation Action ◽  
Change Mitigation

Household-level mitigation and adaptation actions are important because households make a significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and are severely affected by climate change. However, there is still very little understanding of the factors that influence household-level mitigation and adaptation action. From a review of literature, we identified the factors that potentially influence climate mitigation and adaptation actions of households, which we then tested using survey data from 622 households in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Nuevo Leon is a major emitter of greenhouse gasses and is a state where climate-related disasters are recurrent and expected to increase in frequency and severity. Results from ordinal regression analyses showed that perceived knowledge and financial self-efficacy greatly influenced the extent of household-level action taken. To a lesser extent, the age and educational level of the respondent also affected action. Respondents pointed out the need to know about different aspects of climate change. An implication of our study is the value of recognizing the importance of perceptions, as mitigation and adaptation actions are shaped by perceptions of climate change alongside socio-demographic characteristics. This may have significant implications for policies and campaigns promoting household-level action to increase resilience to climate change.

A normative model for integrating organisations for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation within SADC member states

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livhuwani David Nemakonde ◽  
Dewald Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Normative Model ◽  
Member States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face

Purpose Research has demonstrated that governance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have evolved largely in isolation from each other – through different conceptual and institutional frameworks, response strategies and plans, at both international, national and subnational levels. As a result, the management of disaster risk through DRR and CCA is highly fragmented. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the set of actors and their location in government that create and shape governance in DRR and CCA integration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states. Design/methodology/approach The study draws upon a range of data collection techniques including a comprehensive literature review relating to DRR and CCA in general and in the SADC member states, face-to-face interviews and an online survey. A mixed method research design was applied to the study with a total of 35 respondents from Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe participating in the face-to-face interviews and an online survey. Findings The analysis shows that DRR and CCA are carried out by different departments, agencies and/or ministries in all but three SADC member states, namely, Mozambique, Mauritius and the Seychelles. Participants were able to highlight the different ways in which integration should unfold. In light of this, the paper proposes a normative model to integrate government organisations for DRR and CCA within SADC member states. Originality/value The implementation of the model has the potential to accelerate the integration of organisations for DRR and CCA, with the resultant improvement in the implementation of risk reduction strategies and efficient use of resources.

scholarly journals Peace, Protest and Precarity: Making Conceptual Sense of Young People’s Non-violent Dissent in a Period of Intersecting Crises

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bowman ◽  
Sarah Pickard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Taking Action

Abstract The current young generation are living through socio-historically situated intersecting crises, including precarity and climate change. In these times of crisis, young people are also bearing witness to a distinctive global wave of youth-led activism involving protest actions. Much of this activism can be deemed dissent because many young activists are calling for systemic change, including the radical disruption, reimagining and rebuilding of the social, economic and political status quo. In this interdisciplinary article, between politics and peace studies, we investigate how the concept of peace plays an important role in some young dissent, and specifically the dissent of young people taking action on climate change. We observed that these young environmental activists often describe their actions in careful terms of positive peace, non-violence, kindness and care, in order to express their dissent as what we interpret as positive civic behaviour. They also use concepts grounded in peace and justice to navigate their economic, political and social precarity. Based on a youth-centred study, drawing on insightful face to face semi-structured interviews in Britain and France with school climate strikers, Friday For Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists, we explore how young environmental activists themselves related their dissent, and especially how they attached importance to it being non-violent and/or peaceful. Stemming from our findings, we discuss how young environmental activists’ vision of violence and non-violence adapted to the structural and personal violence they face at the complex intersections of young marginalization, global inequalities and injustices in the lived impact of climate change and the policing of protest.

scholarly journals Climate Change Capacity Discovery: Current Activities and Future Priorities at Land-grant Universities in the Northeast

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Tobin ◽  
Rama Radhakrishna ◽  
Allison Chatrchyan ◽  
Joana Chan ◽  
Shorna Allred
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Land Grant Universities ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Change Capacity ◽  
Extension Work ◽  
Discovery Project

This report details the findings from the Capacity Discovery project, an online survey implemented in spring 2015 that documented the current and future capacity of land-grant universities in the Northeast to address climate change research and Extension work in the agriculture, natural resources, and forestry sectors.

Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Luna ◽  
Kim Mills ◽  
Brian Dixon ◽  
Marcel de Sousa ◽  
Christine Roland Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change

El estilo de aprendizaje y su relación con el desempeño académico en estudiantes de arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Irma Cantú
Keyword(s):  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Nuevo León

El estudio tuvo el propósito de conocer la relación que existe entre el estilo de aprendizaje predominante del alumno de arquitectura —así como las subcategorías presentadas por Alonso, Gallegos y Honey (estilo activo, estilo reflexivo, estilo teórico y estilo pragmático)— y su desempeño académico, en función de la importancia que, desde el punto de vista pedagógico, sus resultados podrían tener para redefinir los enfoques didácticos en áreas del conocimiento con las características teórico-prácticas como las de la arquitectura y el diseño. Se trata de un estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y correlacional, que utiliza una muestra probabilística estratificada de 288 sujetos. El instrumento utilizado fue el Inventario de Estilos de Aprendizaje, de Honey-Alonso. Se utilizó la prueba de dependencia P2 (Ji cuadrado), para estudiar la relación entre el estilo de aprendizaje predominante del alumno y su desempeño académico y el coeficiente de correlación r de Pearson para el estudio de cada una de las subcategorías de los estilos de aprendizaje del alumno y su relación con su desempeño académico. Los resultados obtenidos demostraron que el desempeño académico de los estudiantes expresado por el rendimiento, es influido, para algunos positivamente y para otros negativamente, por el estilo de aprendizaje; se concluye en términos generales que existe una correlación significativa entre el desempeño académico y el estilo de aprendizaje institucional.

Implementación de estrategias de mejora continua en el Bachillerato de Educación a Distancia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Elisa María Lankenau Caballero ◽  
Anny Frid Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Educación A Distancia ◽  
Nuevo León

<p>Desde 2013, la Preparatoria No. 2 de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), por medio del Bachillerato a Distancia, atiende a una población de educativa de carácter nacional. Esto se da a través de una metodología en bloques, congruente con las características particulares de la población estudiantil, entre los que se encuentran adultos con actividades laborales, familiares, educativas y sociales. Esta metodología comprende una serie de acciones estratégicas que permitieron cristalizar el egreso de 98 estudiantes con perfiles competentes <em>ad hoc </em>para su progreso en el campo laboral, o bien, su inserción al Nivel Superior. Asimismo, bajo el compromiso de elevar tanto la calidad educativa del Bachillerato a Distancia como el porcentaje de eficiencia terminal de los estudiantes con estas características, se considera la implementación de nuevas estrategias que permitirían continuar con la mejora del programa.</p>

El impacto de las estrategias del Departamento de Orientación en la modalidad mixta

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Blanca Elizabeth Garza Garza ◽  
Jorge Rodríguez Cavazos
Keyword(s):  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Nuevo León

La reprobación y deserción ha sido una problemática constante en la modalidad mixta de la Escuela Preparatoria número 8 de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). La población considerada para este estudio fue de treinta y tres alumnos, quienes en los semestres anteriores no llevaban un seguimiento de orientación psicopedagógica. Con la apertura del Departamento de Orientación se definieron las áreas de apoyo en la Orientación Psicológica e Información Profesional y Laboral, dado que son las materias del área de Desarrollo Humano donde se interviene de manera individual, grupal, masiva, en línea, especializada, por pares y mixta. Los ejes de acción son tres: prevención, formación e intervención. Los resultados de la investigación exploratoria han permitido identificar a los alumnos en riesgo de reprobación y aquellos propensos a abandonar la escuela. Con estas acciones ha sido incrementada la eficiencia terminal.

MINERALOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE SAN FELIPE FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS) IN THE PEDRO CARRIZALES LOCALITY (RAYONES, NUEVO LEÓN), NORTHEASTERN MÉXICO

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Cossío-Dülmer ◽  
◽  
Carolina Cossío-Dülmer ◽  
Fernando Velasco Tapia ◽  
Yolanda Pichardo-Barrón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Nuevo León ◽  
Northeastern Mexico
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